News has been received from Wuchou, on the West river, Kuangsi, to the effect that a body of 5,400 troops, under the spe-Gal command of HE. Liu Ch'un-lin, th new Provincial Treasurer of Kuang has mutinied and gone over to the rebels, taking with them all their arms, ammunition, and commissariat supplies. The cause of the mutiny is the failure of the Kuangsi Provincial Government to yy these troops thi for the past five months. Besid the troops were in want of their winter clothing, and many of them died in. consequent of exposure as well as starvation, mutineers therefore had no oth tive, being forced to rebel and plunder the countryside for food and clothing, after which they joined the rebels.
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